Reconnecting with an African Spiritual Heritage

VODUN SPIRITUALITY

Reconnecting with an African Spiritual Heritage

A 4-Week Live Online Cultural & Spiritual ImmersionPresented by SEA Benin & Path to the Root

From: October 17 to: November 7, 2026

For: Afro-descendants and anyone sincerely interested in understanding Vodun from its West African roots📍 Taught from Benin💻 Live online via Zoom🗓️ 4 weeks | 2 hours per week🎓 Certificate of Completion📚 Course materials and recordings included

FOUNDING COHORT: $197 USD

Regular tuition: $250 USD

Course concept

What if reconnecting with Africa was not only about returning to the land—but also about rediscovering the spiritual heritage of our ancestors?

SEA Benin is pleased to announce a 4-Week Live Online Cultural & Spiritual Immersion into Vodun Spirituality, designed especially for Afro-descendants and anyone sincerely interested in understanding Vodun from its West African roots.

Central question

What can Vodun teach us about who we are, where we come from, and our relationship with the sacred?

The four-week curriculum

Week 1 — Understanding VodunWorldview, origins, meaning and the relationship between the visible and invisible worlds.

Key questions:

• What is Vodun? What does It mean?

• Where does Vodun come from?

• How did Vodun develop among Aja-Fon communities?

• What is the relationship between the visible and invisible worlds?

• How do Vodun traditions understand the Creator?

• What is the place of human beings within creation?

• Why has Vodun been misunderstood and demonized?

Week 2 — The Vodun & Sacred ForcesTopics :

·       Mawu-Lissa,

·       Legba, Sakpata,

·       Heviosso,

·       Dan/Aido-Hwedo,

·       Water-related spiritual traditions (Mami Wata)

·       And other spiritual traditions connected to nature and cosmic order

Week 3 — Ritual, Divination & Sacred Community

Topics:

• Sacred spaces

• Temples and shrines

• Priests and priestesses

• Prayer and Songs

• Drumming and Dance

• Offerings and sacrifice

• Divinations (Fa and systems of spiritual knowledge)

• Possession and spiritual embodiment

• Initiation

• Festivals and community ceremonies

• Sacred knowledge and confidentiality

  
  

Week 4 — Vodun, Slavery, Diaspora & ReconnectionCultural survival, the African Diaspora, Haiti, Brazil, spiritual memory, identity and the contemporary revival of interest in Vodun.

Topics:

• Vodun before European colonization

• The impact of the transatlantic slave trade

• Spiritual resistance and cultural survival

• African spiritual traditions in the Diaspora (Haiti, Brazil, Americas, etc.)

• Vodun and contemporary Afro-descendant identity

• Vodun and tourism (Vodun Days and contemporary Benin)

• The future of Vodun

  
  

Meet your facilitator : Gerard Richard Agbayanou 

Beninese educator, cultural custodian, writer, and tour guide, Gerard Richard Agbayanou is dedicated to reconnecting people of African descent with the history, wisdom, and spiritual heritage of their ancestors.

Founder & President of SEA Benin and author of Understanding Vodun Spirituality (2024), Gerard brings together academic knowledge, cultural experience, and living African traditions.

Payment mode: Use Ria or Remitly or Taptap Send to this info: (+229)0196848037, Country: Benin, City: Ouidah, First name: Gerard Richard, Name: Agbayanou

For more info: (+229) 96848037 for whatsapp, (+229)0196848037 for direct call or email me at: agbayanourich@gmail.com

⚠️ Please note: This is an educational and cultural immersion. It is not an initiation program, and it does not teach restricted ritual practices.

If you have ever wondered what your ancestors believed, how African spiritual traditions survived displacement and colonialism, or what Vodun means in contemporary Africa and the Diaspora, this journey is for you.

Come not simply to learn about Vodun.

Come to understand the worldview behind it.